Drip cup bail



Sept. 3, 1957 c. c. FARKASCH DRIP CUP BAIL Filed .Jan. 7, 1955 MM Wm we iwfq i a V /7er ATTORNEY United States Patent DRIP CUP BAIL Claire C. Farkasch, Orinda, Calif.

Application January 7, 1955, Serial No. 480,493

3 Claims. (Cl. 220--94) My invention relates to drip cups and particularly to cups having bails by which they may be suspended.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of a drip catching receptacle having supporting means demountably attachable to a fixed support such as the clamp arm of a grinder.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a drip cup embodying a supporting bail which may be folded down into a position of disuse about the cup rim.

Other objects will be brought out in the following description of the invention. I do not limit myself to the showing made by said description and drawings, since I may use variant forms of the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

In a widely used type of home grinder the grinding of vegetables or meat is usually attended by the squeezing of juices through the bearings with loss of the juice and messing of the floor, unless appropriate steps are taken to prevent such results. My invention contemplates the provision of a small receptacle to be pendently supported from the grinder by a readily mounted and demounted two-piece bail, so that extracted juices expressed in operation of the grinder may be caught and preserved for use or other disposal without the clean-up job which usually follows use of the grinder.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of my drip cup as pendently attached to the clamp arm of a conventional grinder which is shown in dotted outline.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of my drip cup with the bail extended. The view is taken in a direction at right angles to that of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an elevation taken in the same direction as that of Fig. 1, but showing the near half-bail folded down under the beaded rim of the cup in which position it resiliently clings to the curved body of the cup. The more distant half-bail is shown in a partly retracted position.

My drip cup comprises a cup body 2 having the beaded rim 3. Pivotally riveted to the body close to the rim and at diagonally opposite points by pivot pins 4 are a pair of curved half-bails 5 and 6.

The curvature of the half-bails is substantially that of the body of the cup just below the rim; and they are formed of thin resilient metal so that when retracted or folded down under the rim as shown in Fig. 3, they cling to the body of the cup out of the way, so as not to interfere with the nesting together of several cups, or uses of the cup for purposes other than those referred to herein.

At their free ends, the half-bails 5 and 6 are provided with mutually interlocking return bends 7 and 8 respectively, which are shaped and proportioned to lightly lock together when engaged laterally or longitudinally.

Immediately above the pivoted end, each half-bail is bent to form a shoulder stop 9, biased across the halfbail as shown, and serving the double purpose of limiting the opening swing of the part to a angle with the plane of the rim, and also to extend the half-bail around the rim extension.

After the griller 11 has been attached to the supporting table top or shelf 12 in the usual way, the cup is put in position below it and the separated half-bails, extended through the opening above the clamp arm 13, and the interlocking ends hooked together, as shown in Fig. 1. In this position juices escaping past the bearing, dribble down the clamp arm and collect in the cup. At the conclusion of the grinding the half-bails are readily unhooked and the cup removed.

I claim: 7

l. A drip cup comprising a cup body having a rim, a pair of half-bails each of which at one end is pivotally mounted on the cup body adjacent the rim for oppositely progressing movement about a common axis from an oppositely extending horizontal position to an aligned vertical position, stop means to limit the opposite pivotal movement of the half-bails about said common axis at the aligned vertical position, and means on the free ends of the half-bails mutually interlocking toward the end of said oposite movement which brings the half-bails into vertical alignment.

2. A drip cup comprising a cup body having a circular rim constituting a head, a pair of arcuate half-bails each of which at one end is pivotally mounted on the cup body adjacent the bead for pivotal movement in a direction opposite to the other about a common axis disposed diametrically of the rim, a shoulder stop biased across the pivoted end of each half-bail and engaging the head to limit the opposite pivotal movement thereof about said common axis to a position at right angles to the plane of the rim, and mutually interlocking means on the free ends of the half-bails mutually engageable when both are oppositely swung upwardly to stopped position.

3. A drip cup in accordance with claim 1 in which the cup body rim is circular and each half-bail is resilient and arcuate in shape to cling resiliently to the cup body rim when the half-bails are disengaged by pivotal movement to their horizontal oppositely extending positions.

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